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Bewick's Wren Summer in Inceville Los Liones Canyon Los Angeles California 139

"Bewick's Wren is something of an enigma, a cavity nester that is common in chaparral and sage scrub, habitats with no trees offering cavities. The answer is the wren's flexible definition of a cavity: rocks, caves, holes in the ground, and the litter of humanity serve for nest sites just as well as holes in a tree.

sdplantatlas.org/ge_files/pdf/Bewick's Wren.pdf

It lives in thickets, brush piles and hedgerows, open woodlands and scrubby areas, often near streams.

 

Its range is from southern British Columbia, Nebraska, southern Ontario, and southwestern Pennsylvania south to Mexico, Arkansas and the northern Gulf States."

 

 

It was a delightful surprise to find this small bird singing ....

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Uploaded on November 27, 2017
Taken on August 3, 2017